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6. I like to see the full 15 on the list before judging.

Perhaps a bit silly, but since Obama has helped both directly and by not going after hedge-funds and their shenanigans, and seems he just tried to slip through the TPP, perhaps he's more representative of Obama the President's plan than some of us want to believe.

I have to wonder. Y'know he started his CHANGE by installing the status quo, he invited that hateful pastor from CA to do the inaugural prayer, we forget sometimes that the Campaigner and the President are two different things. The platform is for the President and his Party, not just for the election.

19. You might Ass-u-me, but I shall not.

Good luck with that.

I am clearly not a rah rah cheerleader for the Dem Party's nor Obama's apparent pledge to be more Republican, evenso I try not to assume, and not all of Cory Booker is bad or bought and paid for, from what I've seen in interviews and the like.

However, I will remain alert and skeptical, just not as certain as you seem to be.

27. Unless you've found the list, you don't know that.

29. If Booker is on, there CAN'T be room

for anyone like Feingold, or Jim Hightower, or anybody who ever stood with the poor. You can't have corporate toadies and progressives on the same platform committee.

And the thing is, the party has no need for anyone like Booker...he represents nobody, has no successes in his position, and has no real ideas on any issues at all. Defending Bain is the same thing as wanting the rich to dominate the world.

25. Maybe Dems and the GOP should save money and combine their conventions n/t

32. Correct. The Democrats are not that much to the Left of those RW nutz hanging over

the Right side cliff.

We need another way to differentiate Left from Right..., errr, the good guys from the bad. (D) and (R) do not mean much any more.
Electing those running as Democrats is not good enough to save our country. Too many are turning out to be sleeper tea-party members.

33. UNLIKE

39. Tony Coehlo? This is the guy that turned the democrats hard right when he said the D's should

pursue the same campaign funders as the right. This is outrageous! And what happened to the long held tradition of the platform committee being chosen by the party? Sorry, but this has DLC written all over it.

53. What is the difference? It is the platform.

The minute the convention is over it is put in a file drawer someplace and forgotten about. The president runs on his own views and policies. He does not run on the platform. No one even reads it. There used to be big platform fights at conventions in the eras of civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. But no more. The convention bosses now just want conventions where everyone is smiling and there are no "events" for the media to pick up on.